AAAAhhh 150!! Lucas left this morning at 3:20am. Julio and his wife Tye went to San Jose this morning to see get a visa and they offered to take Lucas with them but they had to get there at 6:00am. Poor Lucas got about an hour of sleep but at least he didn’t have to worry about the bus arriving late or there being long lines and missing his flight. I saw my parents off this morning after breakfast. They are off to Arenal and then the Osa Peninsula before returning here for a few days. They explained their trip to me and it sounds amazing. I am going to miss everyone but I have found over the years that I am a creature of habit and it feels good getting back on my loose schedule of wake-up, feed the pigs, breakfast, work, lunch, nap, random afternoon activity, spend time with family, shower, dinner, more hang out time, sleep, repeat.
As I was leaving the lodge this morning I ran into Marco, one of the people that lives up the street in this area called Finca la Bella. He has been working at the eco-lodge for the last few months. He is one of the people that Alex works with and one of the people that we always play soccer with. He asked me about my project that I am doing and invited me to see what he is doing at his house and farm. He has been trying to make his farm as sustainable and organic as possible. He has started an organization with his family (which I cannot remember the name of off the top of my head) but is basically to promote organic and sustainable practices and living. We decided on meeting at 4:30 so that was my random afternoon activity for the day. I spent about an hour there talking with him, seeing his farm and taking pictures. It is a beautiful place and he has a lot of really great things started and a lot that he would like to put into practice. It would be great to put together a little profile of his organization, him and his farm that we could put online or something. All he really needs to realize his plans is help from volunteers and I am sure there are plenty of people that would like to live in Costa Rica for a few months working on a beautiful sustainable organic farm. It is just a matter of telling people about it. Money is always a need but a lot of what he wants to do wouldn’t require that much money it is more a matter of not being able to do it himself because he has to spend his time working for wages.
After I got back from Marco’s I was going to go down to the lodge to use the internet for a little while but I got into a heated conversation all about the farm and stuff. It was pretty funny. Both of us were all worked up and poor Lilliam was in the middle trying to watch TV. We ended up talking about Otoniel’s whole history working here. By the time we finished it was probably 7:00. So I decided to forget about going to the station tonight and took a shower instead and am now about to eat bowl number 151.
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